Quotes About Knowledge

Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing

An answer, certainly,' Vale agreed. 'But the truth? That might be a very dangerous commodity.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth.

She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.

We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.

stacks of reference books spread outward from the corners of the room and toward the center like infectious diseases.

We stand for preservation. We are not rulers. We are Librarians.

What Vale didn't know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.

Sure. I've been to hundreds of morgues. Thousands of them, in fact.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

If we disown history we are at its mercy. To have a reasonable knowledge of the past is to possess an anchor which is likely to prevent us from being swept towards false ideas about the present and future.

Nothing in the traditional life of Aborigines was more impressive than their practical knowledge. They were masters of their environment even though they could do little to change it.

For out of olde feldes, as men seyth,Cometh al this newe corn fro yer to yere;And out of olde bokes, in good feyth,Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas,Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede,The deeth of every man.

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.